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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.61,0:00:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the war,\Nthere was a foreigner in Prishtina,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.24,0:00:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he lost the way to his hotel
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.23,0:00:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was in the main suite.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.88,0:00:21.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He asked somebody, he said:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.47,0:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Please, can you tell me, \Nwhere is the Grand Hotel?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.92,0:00:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boy said: \N"Do you see the end of the street?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.02,0:00:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The building there?\NHe said: Yes, I see it!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.09,0:00:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the Grand Hotel,\Nit's the one on the right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.28,0:00:34.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.91,0:00:37.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, my way of being an architect\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.97,0:00:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was also very irregular and round.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.08,0:00:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I studied architecture in two universities
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.16,0:00:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for almost ten years and when I finished
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.85,0:00:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was really not so sure about what to do
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.09,0:00:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where to begin, so I thought
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.77,0:00:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will take more time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.92,0:00:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And started to travel and I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.54,0:01:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if i didn't understand architecture in school
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.42,0:01:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe I should go myself and see,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.86,0:01:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually, what i discovered was that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.67,0:01:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you are in the building,\Nwhen you're visiting the building,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.90,0:01:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you spend time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.76,0:01:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go there, sometimes in some places
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.81,0:01:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you spend a week there or three days
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.52,0:01:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you arrive there \Nyou want to spend some more time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.36,0:01:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what do you do? \NYou look. You look, and after a while
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.42,0:01:25.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you try to see
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.61,0:01:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can't see in the very beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.09,0:01:30.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually is very important to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.01,0:01:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you draw and I used to draw a lot,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.48,0:01:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it takes time. People tell
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.95,0:01:37.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a very good hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.35,0:01:40.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, it's not the hand who's drawing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.43,0:01:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the head, it's the eyes, it's the look.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.52,0:01:45.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can not draw if you can not look.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.98,0:01:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to learn to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.20,0:01:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you see, then you can learn to draw.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.30,0:01:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very easy,\Nyou don't have to think.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.15,0:01:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.17,0:02:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you would ask me to say only one place,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.30,0:02:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is TED, we have to do it shortly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.06,0:02:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only one place where which I would choose\Nbetween all I have seen
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.66,0:02:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a city in India, Ahmedabad,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.43,0:02:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has four buildings of le Corbusier
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.78,0:02:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one building of Louis Kahn,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.77,0:02:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a school actually, a university.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.49,0:02:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These two architects are the ones which
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.75,0:02:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the modern architects
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.37,0:02:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which have influenced ...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.05,0:02:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything I have done
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.83,0:02:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By their way of building
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.11,0:02:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also by the way of thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.15,0:02:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and particularly \None of these four buildings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.83,0:02:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of le Corbusier, this one
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.09,0:02:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is exactly in this building that I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.05,0:02:40.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a feeling that I had something\Nin my hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.45,0:02:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A moment when you think
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.59,0:02:44.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like you holding something?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.55,0:02:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't call it a truth
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.49,0:02:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but something really very strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.43,0:02:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I said: "Well, OK, \Nnow I want to become an architect."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.18,0:02:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the next thing to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.93,0:02:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i said, I want to go home.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.35,0:02:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went to Prizren first.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.07,0:02:59.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is 1913.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.87,0:03:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prizren was born out of two very simple rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.60,0:03:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One, is the rule of "no harm"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.28,0:03:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't do to your neigbors what
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.87,0:03:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you wouldn't like them to do to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.97,0:03:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the second is "beauty without arrogance".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.83,0:03:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.74,0:03:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These two principles\Ncould make a city like this.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.16,0:03:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's very simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.56,0:03:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I found was this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.62,0:03:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this to me was ugliness with arrogance.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.54,0:03:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.43,0:03:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have something worse than this!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.36,0:03:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.32,0:03:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no limit in bad things \Nalso in good ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.01,0:03:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the very begining in Kosovo I realize
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.16,0:03:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to change things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.42,0:03:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came there to change things.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.69,0:03:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you cannot change the otherss
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.79,0:03:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can change only yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.67,0:03:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i didn't want to change myself
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.26,0:03:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way of becoming like the others
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.17,0:03:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to stay with my beliefs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.45,0:04:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wanted to change other things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.49,0:04:04.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i had to find a way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.27,0:04:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I could speak to the people
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.02,0:04:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.85,0:04:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they would understand what I mean
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.47,0:04:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was sure they will understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.14,0:04:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I tried to find a language
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.42,0:04:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a common language
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.33,0:04:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could speak to them
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.75,0:04:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and could be what I think
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.67,0:04:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I concentrated on one thing
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.04,0:04:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the architecture \Nshould improve people lives
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.12,0:04:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ask me
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.59,0:04:26.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a good architecture?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.89,0:04:29.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one thing that \Nall good architecture should have
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.61,0:04:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Architecture should improve your life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.14,0:04:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be something \Nthat makes your living better
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.01,0:04:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cities could be a better place to live
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.45,0:04:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.74,0:04:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A school should be a place
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.85,0:04:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can get inspired to learn
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.60,0:04:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a house should be a place
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.01,0:04:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you have a well being
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.80,0:04:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A room should be a place
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.70,0:04:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which inspires happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.67,0:04:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my daughter in the top of my house
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.74,0:04:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have to tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.23,0:04:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she's happy there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.78,0:05:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the basic things
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.65,0:05:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my work was that I was
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.25,0:05:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always limited financially.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.89,0:05:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All my clients had very little means
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.23,0:05:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I had to find a way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.08,0:05:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make things with very little
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.27,0:05:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making things with very little,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.91,0:05:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's learning the simplicity.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.76,0:05:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the elements that you'll see
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.76,0:05:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my buildings is concrete.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.58,0:05:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And many people ask me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.93,0:05:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do you make concrete buildings?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.87,0:05:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't have a choice, actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.77,0:05:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concrete is the only material
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.14,0:05:31.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could afford.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.11,0:05:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We couldn't afford stone
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.40,0:05:34.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We couldn't afford marble
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.39,0:05:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but concrete, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.52,0:05:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could do good things with concrete
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.02,0:05:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you respect it
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.73,0:05:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you find a way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.67,0:05:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it real,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.16,0:05:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it only once,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.91,0:05:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't put a second layer
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.41,0:05:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you don't have to.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.89,0:05:47.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buqalla Pools & Hotel,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.21,0:05:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was my biggest commission
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.40,0:05:51.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it took me five years
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.31,0:05:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.14,0:05:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was my biggest project,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.33,0:05:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but actually it's the one which
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.70,0:05:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had trouble to explain.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.51,0:06:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were two or three things which started,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.39,0:06:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One was that, \NI wanted a place where the man
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.61,0:06:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can meet the nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.31,0:06:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounds very theoretical
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.77,0:06:10.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but imagine, you come to this place
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.19,0:06:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to forget you everyday life,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.50,0:06:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your problems and you want to feel well.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.44,0:06:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I wanted a place where you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.96,0:06:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could feel well.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.97,0:06:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where you're not relaxed,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.62,0:06:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just feel good.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.87,0:06:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe get inspired to do things.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.46,0:06:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing was, I wanted architeture
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.25,0:06:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be related to the nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.48,0:06:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you imagine architecture here
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.51,0:06:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nature here and something in between.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.56,0:06:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing in between is a sort of
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.58,0:06:38.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human landscape,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.06,0:06:38.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not the nature
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.99,0:06:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's not the inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.03,0:06:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's sort of between\Nnature and architecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.04,0:06:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, these two elements
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.28,0:06:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made this complex, this architecture.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.40,0:06:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.15,0:06:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realize during this five years
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.84,0:06:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was very difficult to practice
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.66,0:06:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,architecture in Kosovo
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.28,0:07:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way I was used to do it
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.28,0:07:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Switzerland.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.96,0:07:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to adapt.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.02,0:07:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the really basic things that happen
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.08,0:07:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that architecture I think in Albania
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.11,0:07:10.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Kosovo is the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.15,0:07:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are in a process of changes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.68,0:07:18.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Building is still like in maybe\N200 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.36,0:07:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where owners hires the builders,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.30,0:07:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build their houses
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.84,0:07:23.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they don't need architects.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.91,0:07:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they buy papers from architects
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.24,0:07:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they give it to the builders
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.98,0:07:29.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they cannot replace us.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.51,0:07:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I had only one choice
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.74,0:07:34.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do something well
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.25,0:07:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was to become a master builder
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.38,0:07:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.55,0:07:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.97,0:07:45.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the real builders,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.69,0:07:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the owner was not there.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.49,0:07:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were relaxing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.62,0:07:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a very small house,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.66,0:07:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the very smallest I have done.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.06,0:07:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a family of four
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.86,0:07:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they didn't have a lot of money
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.27,0:07:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, they wanted a really little house
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.04,0:08:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which fulfills all their needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.44,0:08:04.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made a sort of strategic plan
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.25,0:08:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.34,0:08:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I developed four points.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.57,0:08:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which can be a sort of generic
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.88,0:08:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to generate architecture \Nin this situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.33,0:08:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of these was to make an efficient plan.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.52,0:08:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An efficient plan is like you plan
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.67,0:08:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the life in the house
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.30,0:08:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be really very well organized
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.83,0:08:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it works well
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.02,0:08:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not one centimeter lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.24,0:08:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second thing was, we wanted to use
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.22,0:08:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local labor and materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.37,0:08:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who built it, \Nthey lived in the same place
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.20,0:08:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the materials were coming from near,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.89,0:08:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they were cheaper.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.58,0:08:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used the passive solar energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.19,0:08:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It costs nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.72,0:08:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have a lot of windows in the south,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.46,0:08:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have sun in winter, \Nand shade in summer
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.28,0:08:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the sun is high.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.21,0:08:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.93,0:08:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fourth element was
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.57,0:08:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to design and build everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.30,0:08:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We designed lights
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.56,0:08:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we designed furniture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.79,0:08:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we designed many many things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.09,0:09:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was cheaper to design and build things
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.56,0:09:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than buy ready made
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.14,0:09:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which were ugly anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.25,0:09:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dida house was much bigger
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.41,0:09:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe two three times bigger
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.53,0:09:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it didn't cost two three times more.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.24,0:09:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dida house is a holiday house.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.66,0:09:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't live there all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.66,0:09:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Kosovo we have very extreme climate.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.72,0:09:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The winter is very cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.22,0:09:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The summer is very hot.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.18,0:09:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So traditionally, we have to houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.30,0:09:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who can afford.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.54,0:09:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A winter house and a summer house.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.16,0:09:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I thought, maybe I should do a house
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.82,0:09:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has these two
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.65,0:09:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside and outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.66,0:09:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I related the inside and outside
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.80,0:09:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with continuous space
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.10,0:09:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you have a space which does not stop inside
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.62,0:09:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it goes outside and comes inside
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.07,0:09:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and than it goes up and it goes down
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.55,0:09:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so everything is related to each other
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.63,0:09:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you relate everything to each other\N
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.50,0:09:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you gain a sort of harmony
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.50,0:10:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when things are at their place.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.09,0:10:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When something happens \Nthere is some poetry there as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.51,0:10:07.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.73,0:10:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Mother Theresa museum is in Prizren
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.73,0:10:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Mother Theresa's parents\Ngot married in a Catholic Church in Prizren
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.98,0:10:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had a little plot in the front\Nand wanted to build a museum.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.26,0:10:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I imagined an old Prizren house, \Nwith three floors,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.44,0:10:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you actually go inside
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.01,0:10:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one space.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.59,0:10:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had this idea of making really a one space .
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.14,0:10:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is like a child dream that you can walk around up and down
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.98,0:10:39.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because inside of the house is like someone has taken down all the floors
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.55,0:10:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and emptied everything that is inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.57,0:10:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turning it into an empty space.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.18,0:10:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, you know, \Narchitecture is not the material
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.99,0:10:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the emptiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.46,0:10:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is what actually is not there.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.83,0:10:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.02,0:10:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.26,0:11:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was doing a theater competition once,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.06,0:11:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had a guy who was producing theatrical pieces help me
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.91,0:11:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make a better competition.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.48,0:11:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lost it!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.75,0:11:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, I understood one thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.29,0:11:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy told me \N"I do not need my theater to be beautiful"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.04,0:11:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I needed to generate beauty"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.86,0:11:23.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want a theater which can help me \Nmake beautiful pieces"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.05,0:11:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not care if the theater itself is beautiful or not"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.29,0:11:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I was thinking and I realized that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.96,0:11:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.67,0:11:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Architecture is not the beauty
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.64,0:11:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is rather the capacity \Nto generate beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.17,0:11:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me finish with a little story \Nfrom the Venice Biennale
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.08,0:11:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I represented Kosovo.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.48,0:11:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did a tower with "shkami"\Nor stool in English
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.26,0:11:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is an old piece of Albanian furniture
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.12,0:11:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning a stool and at the same time a rock.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.92,0:12:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it shows that it is a very old thing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.18,0:12:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably people sat on the rock \Nwhile making the stool long time ago
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.43,0:12:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it relates strongly to our tradition
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.56,0:12:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not to one specific one, \Nbut rather those of thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.75,0:12:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I chose this old traditional element
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.74,0:12:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make this modern instalation.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.49,0:12:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This because I wanted to show the relation \Nbetween tradition and modernity.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.75,0:12:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But something happened \Nthat I did not expect.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.05,0:12:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that if you would stand in the middle of it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.62,0:12:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you would speak
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.15,0:12:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would hear an echo coming from all sides.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.00,0:12:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I watched the visitors who did it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.65,0:12:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and once they did it they would start to laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.08,0:12:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was so beautiful to hear your voice
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.99,0:12:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as you do not listen to your self very often.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.81,0:13:02.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were tired of seeing Biennale
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.61,0:13:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would come back from the tower
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.30,0:13:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a smile.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.55,0:13:06.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly the tower was loosing all
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.93,0:13:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its significance, all its wait
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.02,0:13:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and symbolic
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.26,0:13:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and became something which
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.08,0:13:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could transmit instant happiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.90,0:13:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank You
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.86,0:13:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)